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Eva Zeisel is an industrial designer who designs mainly dinnerware.  She is originally from Budapest but she came to the United States after she was released from a prison oversees to settle down with her husband.  She is considered a premier industrial designer of the 20th century.  She started the Ceramic Arts Industrial Design Department at the Pratt Institute.  She designed a series of China dinnerware for Sears Roebuck, Castleton China, Federal Glass, and Phillip Rosenthal.  She recieved many awards including Honorary Doctorates from the Parsons School in New York and the Royal College of the Arts in London, and in 2002 she won the Russel Wright Award for Design Excellence.  She was also known for giving her dinnerware an interesting shape.  Instead of using the traditional round shape for a dinner plate she would give the plate a slightly oval shape to make it more interesting.  A lot of her ceramic arts and dinnerware had a very fuild shape to it making it very innovative for the time it was designed.   


 

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